Two California Zephyr express trains meet at a railroad siding (Grizzly) in Garfield County, Colorado, beside the Colorado River. The Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotives and passenger cars travel in opposite directions on parallel tracks....

Head and shoulders studio portrait of Elote, North American Indian subchief (Apache); he wears a headdress with feathers and buffalo horns and decorated with discs and ribbons. He wwears a hairpipe necklace and has a blanket wrapped around his...

Detail of the fireplace ruins inside the 1884 Strontia Springs Hotel on the Denver, South Park and Pacific line of the Colorado and Southern railroad, Strontia Springs (Deansbury), Platte Canyon, Douglas County, Colorado. Once part of a posh summer...

A group portrait of the Byers family at a side entrance of the Byers residence at 171 South Washington Street in the Speer neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Identification, right to left, Elizabeth M. Byers (Mrs. William N. Byers), Mrs. Frank...

A barefoot girl prepares to open the front door of the Sunshine Rescue Mission at 1822 Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. The sign in the windows shows a sun with sunbeams that reads: "[Sunshin]e Rescue Mission" and "If [?] Love Shall Conquer...

Men, identified as the commissioners and directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, stand in a row near railroad tracks and pose with a long piece of paper in probably Lincoln County, Nebraska. The Union Pacific Railroad officials wear suits with...

Blackhawk lies at the mouth of Chase Gulch near Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. A railroad track forks in the foreground with one portion leading to the Polar Star Mill at right. The Empire Mill stands in the midground, and the Boiler Room...

View north from Bobtail Hill, in Black Hawk, Colorado, up four mile Gulch to Dory Hill, where the state's first cemetery was located. Central business district includes: Undertaker, Union House (on Selak Street), Drugs (brick, arched windows and...

Buildings of the Ajax gold mine sit atop a large pile of tailings above the Midland Terminal Railway tracks in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. The Portland mine's buildings are in the distance. Shows houses along the railroad line.

A group of men pose in front of a brick and wood building with a tattered awning, in Lawson, Clear Creek County, Colorado. They wear suits, ribbons with American flags and fringe, and hold their hats. Identificatin reads: Row # 1, Bishop?, George...

People pose by the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific tracks and depot, Sunset, (originally Penn's Gluch) Boulder County, Colorado. They are dressed in their finest for the Sunday School picnic excursion. A residence, tent, lunch room and grocery store...

People pose with buggies, wagons, and horse teams by a Silverton Railroad Company locomotive, a Denver & Rio Grande Railway freight car, and a Silverton R.R. passenger car in Red Mountain Town, Ouray County, Colorado. The men wear suits, planter...

Panoramic view of Native American (Ute) men, women and children, and white men at the Shan Kive (Colorado Springs Carnival) in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Utes pose in front of tipis and the sandstone rock formations of the Garden...

Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive #5481 pulls train #1 through the Royal Gorge beside the Arkansas River in Fremont County, Colorado. Shows Hanging Bridge and the sheer walls of the canon spanned by the Royal Gorge suspension bridge.

Interior view of a restaurant at the National Western Stock Show, in Denver, Colorado. Men and women serve or eat food; a roast is on a spit by a fire place and a coffee machine. Signs read: "Premium Ham," "Chesterfield Cigarettes," "Cloverbloom,"...

William N. Byers and his wife Elizabeth and children, Frank and Mary (later Mary Byers Robinson), pose in front of their home in Denver, Colorado; shows a one story wood frame house with a pitched roof and chimney.

Denver police officers pose with Denver's Auto Bandit Chaser in Civic Center Park in the Civic Center Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The car is a Cadillac modified by the Izett Auto Body Company to include bullet-proof armor plate, a...

Placer miners work near a sluice in Russell Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado. Their tools include wheelbarrows, shovels, picks, and pitchforks. Monitors spray water, mine buildings are on the surrounding hills. David Henderson is in the foreground,...

Fashionably dressed ladies walk along 16th (Sixteenth) Street, in front of the Courthouse square, at Tremont, Denver, Colorado. The business district is busy with horse drawn wagons and pedestrians. Streator Brothers Furnishings and a drug store...

"We must not desire all to begin by perfection. It matters little how we begin provided we be resolved to go on well and end well". The inscription under the center windows reads "Earth grants joys that are great; but transplant those joys to...

Panoramic view of the Price River and the Castle Gate rock formation in Price Canyon (Carbon County), Utah. Shows Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway tracks, the town of Willow Creek and the smelter stacks of the Willow Creek mine. A stone house...

View west on Gregory Street in Black Hawk, Colorado, after the flood of 1895; shows flood debris such as planks, posts, rocks, dirt and silt. Three men are holding shovels and working on clearing the street as water continues to pour past them in a...

View of the summer camp for engineers, E.H. McHenry, Research Engineer, on the Marysville Branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad (Helena and Northern Railroad Company) probably near Homestake Pass in Jefferson County or Silver Bow County, Montana....

A view of an engineers camp for the Marshall Pass, Gunnison and Dolores Railroad shows workers and tents in a mountainous landscape. Two men wear aprons in the distance next to a stove. A pile of timber, possibly the structure for a log cabin is...

View of the Radium Company of Colorado's Tejon plant, probably in Denver, Colorado. Machinery and equipment include furnaces, engines, and funnel feeders. Placards embossed on the machinery read: "Hendrie and Bolthoff Manufacturing and Supply Co...

1883 of typhoid fever. Several campus buildings were heavily damaged in the "great earthquake" of April, 1906.; Palm trees stand on the lawn in front of the large, neoclassical Stanford Museum of Art on the campus of Stanford University in Palo...

View of Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County before the fire that destroyed most of the town. Piles of boards behind commercial buildings near patches of snow on the ground. Signs: "Clothing & Furnishing Goods O. K. Store Wholesale & Retail,"...

Workmen work with shovels, tractors, and a dredge on a flood control project for the South Platte River in Denver, Colorado. Automobiles and pick-up trucks are parked nearby. Signs on buildings in the distance read: "Washington Street Garage" and...

View of the American House hotel at 16th (Sixteenth) and Blake Streets in Denver, Colorado. Shows a three-story brick building with metal fire escapes and a covered entry. A sign on the side of the building reads: "La Dez Cigar Company. Factory."...